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6
Administration Tasks Not
Performed in the Web Manager
This section lists the configuration and maintenance tasks that are performed by an administrator
(either the root user, the admin user, or a member of the admin group) either on the Linux
command line, using the cli utility or in the U
-Boot monitor mode.
Configuring Storage of Buffered Data
If data buffering is enabled, console output from managed devices is sent to the syslog daemon but
is not stored. This section describes how the root user can manually configure the storage of
buffered data either in a directory mounted from an NFS file server or in a PC Flash memory card.
Table 6.1: Configuration Files Used in Data Buffering
File Use
/etc/fstab If using an NFS-mounted directory for storage, modify the /etc/fstab file to
define the NFS mount point.
NOTE: This file does not need to be edited for mounting a compact Flash PC
card, because a compact Flash card is detected and automatically mounted
under the /mnt directory when the appliance is rebooted after card installation.
/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf Device data received by the appliance is sent to the syslog-ng daemon, which
uses this file. This file can be modified to configure buffered data from all
devices to be stored in a single file. See To store buffered data in multiple files,
one for each target device: on page 112.
/usr/sbin/cyc-conserver Determines what is inserted into the conserver.cf file when a new device is
added. This file can be modified to configure buffered data from each device to
be stored in a separate file. See To store buffered data in multiple files, one for
each target device: on page 112.
NOTE: The /usr/sbin/ directory is mounted read-only by default. The
procedure describes how you can mount the /usr/sbin/ directory in read-write
mode before you can edit the cyc-conserver file.
/etc/conserver.cf Determines where data buffer files are stored. Direct user modifications to
conserver.cf are lost whenever a new device is added, so make any desired
changes to the cyc.conserver file instead.